That tweet at the end is the real lesson: You "highly educated" folk have built a bizarre world of human interaction that isn't human in the least. I read

That tweet at the end is the real lesson: You "highly educated" folk have built a bizarre world of human interaction that isn't human in the least. I read the entire article. If someone is negatively affected by that interaction, they do not understand what real conflict is. Like, at all. People who get offended by passive aggressiveness as benign as what was described in the article, do one simple thing. Please go visit another part of the country. Or the world. See how they talk. Different cultures (even subcultures in the US) are more direct and blunt. Other are very circumspect and shy with criticism. A person from one side of the spectrum will find it grating to interact with those on the other side. But that feeling goes away over time, with one simple tip - assume everyone has good intentions. Because most people do.